BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions has a busy schedule for March. The calendar includes an estate auctions on Sunday, March 13, and a spring estate extravaganza auction on Saturday, March 19, and Sunday March 20.
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NEW YORK – To welcome the spring auction season, on March 12 Shapiro Auctions will hold its sale of important fine and decorative art and antiques, icons and Asian art with works from the 13th century to the present. With more than 450 lots, the sale will feature works by European, American, Russian, Asian and Latin American artists.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The famed Alfred Stieglitz Collection has returned to Nashville’s Fisk University.
WPLN-FM reports the artwork will be unveiled April 7 after spending two years in Arkansas’ Crystal Bridges museum.
TOKYO (AP) – A long-lost painting by Italian master Caravaggio is being shown to the public for the first time at an exhibition in Tokyo.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – James Naismith’s original rules of “Basket Ball” now have a home at Kansas University – right down to the nook they’ll rest in – but there’s a lot of finishing touches yet to complete.
ALAMEDA, Calif. – Michaan’s Auctions will conduct an auction March 12 that will feature a fine Barten & Rice 18k yellow gold minute repeater pocket watch. The auction will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific.
NEW YORK – When Asian art collectors and museum curators visit New York for Asia Week, Gianguan Auctions will greet them with collections of headline-making Chinese ceramics, ancient and modern scroll paintings and works of art by court scholars, artisans and monks whose vision and craftsmanship inspired emperors and influenced style for generations. The Gianguan Auctions sale is Saturday, March 19, at 39 W. 56th St. and online.
SAN FRANCISCO – On March 10, PBA Galleries will host the third installment of the Warren Heckrotte Collection of rare cartography, exploration and voyages. This sale contains 203 lots of rare and significant books, maps and atlases revealing the geographic and cartographic evolution of the United States and North America from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. There is much on the mapping of Texas and of the West, but also important maps of the eastern United States, large maps of all of the U.S., significant maps of Mexico and Canada, and even geographic games and puzzles.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – I.M. Chait’s annual end-of-March auction is an event held in highest regard by Chinese art connoisseurs returning home to the Far East after Asia Week New York. Those who visit the United States in pursuit of the finest Chinese antiques with prestigious provenance know they will find exactly that at the family-owned Chait gallery in Beverly Hills. The company’s highly anticipated post-Asia-Week auction is slated this year for Sunday, March 20 at the I.M. Chait gallery. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available via LiveAuctioneers.
OAKLAND, Calif. – Asian art and antiques produced great surprises during Clars Auction Gallery’s sale on Feb. 20 and 21. Overall, the sale was a success, achieving $2.1 million.
The Asian category is always offered in the final session of Clars’ Sunday sales and, in perhaps the spirit of saving the most exciting for last, online bidders queued up for a fight to the finish on three lots in particular – all of which sold to bidders utilizing LiveAuctioneers.com’s Internet bidding platform.
Among the first lots that were offered in this session was a Chinese Longquan type ice-crackled brush washer estimated to sell for $800-$1,200. The bidding opened at $900 and the exhaustive battle of Internet bidders began driving the final sale price to an amazing $89,250.
Just six lots later, it happened again. A Chinese celadon wall vase (below) with an apocryphal Qianlong mark was expected to achieve $1,000 – $1,500. The bidding opened at $500 and this time, it was competitive bidding from the floor, phones and Internet that drove the final price on this piece to $77,350.
Fast forward 20 lots and a Chinese turquoise gauze Jifu dragon robe (below), late 19th/early 20th century, blows past its presale estimate of $3,000 – $5,000 selling for $45,750. This Jifu robe and the celadon wall vase came to the sale from a private Oakland estate.
Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAucitoneers.com.
Click here to view the fully illustrated catalog for this sale, complete with prices realized.